Gifts Shore to please

8:01 PM,
Nov. 20, 2013

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I started Christmas shopping last week. Some of it from catalogs, but there always are things that I get locally because those who receive them immediately think about times they visited the Shore.

Before moving here year-round 35 years ago, when I still lived in Ridgewood, my folks also had a house on LBI. The first one was a little Cape Cod on the Boulevard in Brant Beach, then we "moved up," buying a duplex, second from the oceanfront in Surf City. I really loved that house; especially the second floor. My friends and I would come down in the winter, and in the mornings, we would take our mugs of ...